With just two weeks to go in the regular season – plus an SEC Championship Game that most doubt will be all that competitive – the 2011 SEC bowl picture is about as clear as chocolate buttermilk. Here’s an updated look at the SEC’s bowl possibilities, as of this week.

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Rock band The Afters counts among its songs one titled “Never Going Back To OK.” Alabama did just that against Mississippi State and it was just what the doctor ordered. Aside from the running back tandem of Trent Richardson and Eddie Lacy, Alabama was mostly just OK. But Alabama’s OK is better than the best 10 other SEC teams have to offer.

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For a game that was knotted 6-6 at the half, this one didn’t really feel close. The mood in the stadium at halftime was one of comfort. Fans knew that head coach Nick Saban was about to unleash a diatribe of cosmic proportions and solar intensity upon his team following a muddled effort from everyone not named Dont’a Hightower. Even Tennessee seemed to know its fate, and Alabama wasted no time in righting the ship in the third quarter.

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Week 7 was another perfect week for the Predictions Dept. For Week 8, the number of big games is a small one. Both Auburn, which faces LSU, and Tennessee, which plays Alabama, are overmatched. Half the teams in the SEC are off this week, too, and the games that do appear on the slate are somewhat ho-hum in nature.

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Alabama shrugged off yet another first-drive highlight to score 52 unanswered points and rout Ole Miss. It wasn’t a game between haves and have-nots; it was a game between a semi-pro juggernaut and a Rebel team that looked like it would have a hard time making the state playoffs in Class 4A.

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No one pays attention to the teams you are suppose to beat, until you loose to them. So Bama nation let’s make sure to never take a day in the SEC for granted! You never know what could happen! Now, I am not saying I think the Rebels have even a slight chance at winning […]

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The NCAA closed its 13-month investigation into the Auburn program, officially on all fronts. There remains a cloud over players recruited through Willie Lyles, which tangentially involves some current Auburn players, but most of the trouble there seems to point to Oregon and maybe LSU.

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The Predictions Dept. had a perfect week, raising the season average above the magical 90-percent mark. This week, Florida and Auburn battle in a game that will decide whose season effectively ends first, while Tennessee tries to exact revenge upon LSU for the way the 2010 game concluded.

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Ladies, you NEED TO KNOW that THIS weekend in the SEC (South Eastern Conference) is HUGE. First off : if you don’t get the whole “conference, SEC, ACC etc.” thing then let me explain it a little clearer for you. YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS: The NCAA has broken it’s Universities down into sections, groups, […]